Taylor Ledge
| Taylor Ledge | ||
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| Highest peak | Knutzen Peak ( 3373 m ) | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 30 ′ S , 85 ° 57 ′ W | |
The Taylor Ledge is a noticeably flattened mountain ridge with abruptly sloping slopes on the north and south sides in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It lies between the ridge of Boyce Ridge and Mount Shinn on the west side of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains . The higher elevations of the formation are covered in ice. The highest point is the 3373 m high Knutzen Peak at the northern end.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the object in 2006 after the couple Thomas N. Taylor and Edith L. Taylor from the University of Kansas , who worked as paleobotanists as part of the United States Antarctic Program between the 1980s and 2004 to study plant fossils the Transantarctic Mountains .
Web links
- Taylor Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Taylor Ledge on geographic.org (English)